ANTH 435 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS

ANTH 435 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS .Definition of Medical Anthropology - ANSWERS-Study of the following from an anthropological perspective: - human health and disease - health-related behavior - healing and health care .What are some key issues related to the debate around using the term medical anthropology instead of an alternative term like health anthropology? - ANSWERS-- Can be less inclusive, leaving out allied health professions - Suggests biomedicine is the standard - Ties a focus on pathology - Has to be viewed in a holistic perspective .Four factors that form the biosocial processes of disease - ANSWERS-- Human biology - Systems of belief - Structures of social relationship - Environmental conditions .The Straits Expedition - ANSWERS-- Early anthropological research (1898) amongst Indigenous Austrailian people - Collected information on traditional health beliefs and practices - Earliest research to include aspects of health - Found internal coherent structures of cultural beliefs that were related to healing .W.H.R Rivers - ANSWERS-- Father of medical anthropology - published a book named Medicine, magic and religion - His work incorporated health related issues into medical anthropology - The study of cross-cultural perspectives in healing systems became prevalent - recognition that non-western ethnomedicine traditions had a role of magic and supernatural beings in the causing and curing of illness - while biomedicine uses the natural laws and scientific principles to understand the cause and cures of illness .Describe the relationship between the history of the discipline and the applied vs. academic debate - ANSWERS-Argument against applied anthropology: the quality of the research can be perceived as superficial, impressionistic, less rigorous, non-theoretical, and those that practice it are a little more than technicians Argument against academic anthropology: theories that are used and developed can sometimes seem abstract, obstructive, and sometimes irrelevant for those that are seeking practical solutions to specific health problems -tensions between these two perspectives can be seen played out in the history of the birth of the sub-discipline - started with the society for applied anthropology, then there was a push to get the society for medical anthropology affiliated with the more academic professional association, the American anthropological association .academic anthropology - ANSWERS-- Takes place in acadamia - focuses more on theory development .definition of disease - ANSWERS-- diagnosis of sickness - professional healing - using signs and symptoms .definition of illness - ANSWERS-patient's experience of sickness .definition of health - ANSWERS-absence of disease and individual not feeling ill .three human responses to injury and sickness that can lead to cure - ANSWERS-1. autonomous responses (processes which the organism can invoke to gain health or equilibrium) 2. specific responses to treatment (administration of drugs or medicinal herbs) 3. meaning responses (psychological and physiological effects of meaning in the treatment of illness)